Noun

• S: (n) theodolite, transit (a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod)
• S: (n) transportation system, transportation, transit (a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods)
• S: (n) passage, transit (a journey usually by ship) "the outward passage took 10 days"

Verb

• S: (v) transit, pass through, move through, pass across, pass over (make a passage or journey from one place to another) "The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs"; "Some travelers pass through the desert"
• S: (v) transit (pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place)) "The comet will transit on September 11"
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• S: (v) pass (go across or through) "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind"
• S: (v) travel, go, move, locomote (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically) "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"
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• S: (v) transit (revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction)
• S: (v) transit (cause or enable to pass through) "The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day"
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